Organisations are often introducing new hardware and software to their ever-evolving IT infrastructures in a bid to remain competitive. However, a lack of monitoring on these solutions will pose a significant risk of vulnerabilities that malicious individuals could look to exploit. Cybercriminals are constantly scouring for weaknesses within organisations' IT environments, that they can exploit via unethical strategies and hacking techniques.

As organization's IT infrastructures continue to grow in size and complexity, this raises the challenge of guaranteeing security across your resources, systems, and networks. The importance of this is further increased due to data being a valuable commodity in today's world. The loss of data due to a security breach could send seismic repercussions through your entire organization and potentially lead to its demise.

In the latest instalment of our interviews speaking to leaders throughout the world of tech, we’ve welcomed John Bambenek, cybersecurity specialist at Bambenek Consulting Ltd.

Each day there are more and more cyber attacks and threats occurring, with those looking to exploit your IT systems finding various different methods to infiltrate your IT infrastructure. This means it's more vital than ever that you limit the vulnerabilities of your IT infrastructure and guarantee its security. In regards to this, a viable solution available to you is vulnerability assessment.

As the importance of data continues to grow, and the amount of data being processed by organizations grows further, many organizations are beginning to feel the constraints and demands of compliance. Therefore this makes data governance paramount to guarantee the security, accuracy, availability, and usability of your data. Data governance encapsulates the approach to managing data during its lifecycle, from acquisition, to use, to disposal.

In the latest instalment of our interviews speaking to leaders throughout the world of tech, we’ve welcomed Phil McParlane, CTO and founder at 4dayweek.io.

The National Industrial Security Program (NISP), the authority within the United States for access to classified data by government contractors. Have outlined requirements to ensure continued availability and integrity of classified data, and prevent its unauthorised disclosure. The operating manual (NISPOM) affects all government agencies and commercial contractors who have access to classified data.

In the latest instalment of our interviews speaking to leaders throughout the world of tech, we’ve welcomed Jamie Howard, CTO at Capital on Tap. With over 20 years in technology, specialising in start-up/scale-up businesses, Jamie has experience across the engineering, media and financial services sectors.

There are five levels that make up the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) framework. These levels range from Level 1 (Basic Cyber Hygiene) to Level 5 (Advanced/Progressive). With each level of cybersecurity certification, the requirements of the previous level are built upon and new controls and practices are introduced.

In the latest instalment of our interviews speaking to leaders throughout the world of tech, we’ve welcomed professor Michael S. Wills, SSCP, CISSP and CAMS at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.